Morning Brief: Top 5 News (Feb 21)

A momentary distraction occurred early this morning among the media who had set up camp near the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (IPFN), Kuala Lumpur Hospital to cover the Kim Jong-nam case when police came and single out one of the cameramen.

The cameraman from the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) was approached by Dang Wangi District Criminal Investigation Department chief DSP M. Gunalan after four police four-wheel drive vehicles together with a Special Task Force On Organised Crime (Stafoc) team arrived at 1.40am

The place was swirling with people, including auxiliary policemen, and yet no one seemed to have noticed the two women who covered the face of Kim Jong Nam with cloth laced with poison.

No one, that is, except four North Koreans who were sitting in a nearby restaurant watching the whole incident.

Parents of injured teenagers in the recent road accident which killed eight boys welcomed the Home Ministry's proposal to prohibit under aged children from cycling at certain localities late at night.

Under the proposal, the ministry urged the state government to impose the ban which includes city areas, major roads and some locations.

A Johor state executive councillor today advised the people, particularly netizens, to cease blaming the parents of the teenage boys killed or injured in the tragic cycling accident here two days ago.

Asiah Md Ariff, chairman of the Johor Women and Family Affairs Committee, said the people should instead give advice to the parents and not add to their stress by making improper comments on social media.

Renewed protests against U.S. President Donald Trump flared on the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, with grassroots activists vowing to take to the streets in dozens of cities in "Not My President's Day" rallies.